I read that post and your comments below it. The last paragraph of the post seems pretty clear to me, especially the two sentences below. I'll be the first to admit that I don't keep up with all of the SW news, and that a lot of what I do see I don't understand, but I find it difficult to believe that the people at Dassault haven't figured out by now how many customers they would lose by killing the current version of SW. As I've said before in other discussions, until the two sentences below turn out to be a lie I don't plan to lose any sleep over it. If that does happen I will look at alternatives, and they will not involve my work being on the cloud.

"SolidWorks Mechanical CAD, currently used by over two million engineers and designers around the world, will continue to leverage the Parasolid kernel. There is no plan to change the kernel."

"As we have stated previously, we will continue to develop and improve SolidWorks Mechanical CAD, and have no end-of-life plan for the tool that so many of our customers use and depend on today."

How has Dassault / Solidworks expalined how they will reliably transfer parametric data between two different geometry kernels? In this case that means legacy SolidWorks using Parasolid and SolidWorks Mechanical Conceptual using the Dassault CGM kernel.

Apparently apologies are in order. I didn't realize that integrating the two was the point of your original question. As for how they will do that, since I have no interest in the new SW Mechanical Conceptual, as long as the legacy SW keeps working I don't care, but I can understand how it's an issue.

It's a very serious issue and all Dassualt/SolidWorks has offered up is silence. Silence has left the door wide open to SolidWorks competitors... especially Siemens who after many years of total marketing incompetence is slowly getting their act together with Solid Edge marketing.

If their silence has left the door wide open to SW competitors, then thank goodness they have been silent. Market competition spurs advancement and the development of better products. I fail to see how another company making a better product that convinces the market to change is bad. Or how some healthy competition forcing SW to step up their game to keep the market is bad.

Of the different CAD systems I use, I find fault with all of them. They are all good software with different strengths and weakness.

I agree with Glenn "I have no interest in the new SW Mechanical Conceptual, as long as the legacy SW keeps working I don't care".

That being said you do like to make a lot of noise Jon, nothig you say about SW is good, all bad. Personally I am tired of seeing your same old lines over and over again........if you dont like SW fine, go away and leave the rest of us alone.

Solidworks puts the record straight, and is Jon happy? NO. Still rants on about the same cr*p as before, thinking he is the daddy to CAD all over the world. We have had enough from you Jon, now go away and find another CAD company to hassle.

Dassault / SolidWorks didn't set the record straight. If fact, they didn't come close to setting the record straight. I know it and lots of others now know it and are saying so on LinkedIn, on blogs, on You Tube and on Twitter.

This thread is beng locked, and some offensive posts have been removed. Please refer to the SolidWorks Blog for more information on SolidWorks Mechanical Conceptual. Comments are open over there - feel free to join in.

Now let's get back to helping each other learn more about using SolidWorks and related products - after all, that's why these forums exist, as a peer-to-peer resource.